• Yaalon to MKs: The ‘shooting soldier’ is no hero, do you want a brutal army?
• Police established fictitious jail where everyone is an actor in order to incriminate suspects of Jewish terror
• Knesset approved the ‘Suspension Bill’ in first reading
• Netanyahu is looking for ways to compensate the gas monopoly over the revoking of the ‘stability’ article by the High Court
• Israel’s Counter-terrorism agency raises the warning to Israelis: Leave Turkey
• Knesset expected to approve: Supermarkets will charge 10 agorot for nylon bags
• Conditions were changed and hundreds of women won’t receive aid during divorce
• After 11 years, the dismissed (Greek Orthodox) patriarch left isolation
• State racism // Haaretz Editorial
• Tel-Aviv municipality quintupled the arnona (municipal tax) on empty apartments

• Rivlin: “I sleep better with Eisenkot at the head of the IDF”
• “Interior Ministry demanded that Elton John declare loyalty to Israel” – revealed producer Shuki Weiss at the Yedioth/Ynet Anti-BDS conference
• ‘Suspension Bill’ passed first reading
• (MK Avi) Dichter’s extremist statement: “(MK Ayman) Odeh, (assassinated Sheikh) Yassin is waiting for you in hell”

Maariv This Week (Hebrew links)

• The investigators: “The soldier acted negligently, he did not murder”
• State Comptroller: Soldiers and officers are fundraising
• Today: (Actor) Moshe Ivgi will be questioned under warning (over sexual harassment claims)
• The gas deal crisis: Infrastructure Ministry asking Finance Ministry for guarantees for the drilling companies
• Washington: Armed man was shot by a policeman (near Capitol Hill)

Israel Hayom

• Yaalon: “Bennett and Lieberman are blowing dangerous wind”
• (Israel’s Counter-terrorism Agency in) Warning to Israelis: Leave Turkey immediately
• For the first time: Moshe Ivgi will be questioned today under warning
• Greek President in special interview: “Come invest here”
• By a majority of 59 against 53: Knesset approved the ‘Suspension Bill” in the first reading
• Panic in Washington: One wounded in shooting incident at Capitol Hill Visitors’ Center

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News Summary:
The battle in the streets, the newspapers and in the government cabinet over whether to support an IDF soldier who shot dead an already injured and prone Palestinian assailant in Hebron continues (with wartime revelations), the Knesset passed the controversial ‘Suspension Bill’ aimed at suspending Arab MKs in the first reading and Israel warned Israelis to leave Turkey immediately making top stories in today’s Hebrew newspapers. And, Yedioth reported extensively from its anti-BDS conference.
 
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon blasted Education Minister Naftali Bennett for calling soldier's family to express support for someone who transgressed, charging that it confuses soldiers. "What do you want? A brutal army that has lost its moral backbone?” slammed Yaalon. Two other Likud MKs, David Bitan and Nava Boker said the soldier should be pardoned if convicted, as was the case for the Shin Bet men who executed the Palestinian hijackers of an Israeli bus in the ‘Bus No. 300 Affair’ in 1984. Bennett said that as an officer he got backing when a “serious” mistake caused death in Lebanon in 1996, Maariv reported. "I was a commander during Operation Grapes of Wrath and we had a serious operational mishap causing death. When I exited (Lebanon), Amiram Levin told me, ‘I back you.’ Therefore, I don’t rule that (the arrested shooter) is a hero. I say one thing and that is what he deserves, and that is the right to an investigation before his fate is declared." [NOTE: In 2015, Bennett said the same thing after Yedioth’s Yigal Sarna reported that as an officer in the elite Meglan combat unit, Bennett’s actions may have led to the massacre of over 100 Lebanese civilians in Kfar Kana during Operation Grapes of Wrath in 1996. And senior commentator Yaron London wrote in Yedioth how he was witness to such executions of Arabs by Israelis in the Yom Kippur War, but believed and hoped that those with a strong set of morality, like his grandson, would have tried to stop the ‘shooting soldier.’ (See Commentary/Analysis for translated Op-Ed.)
 
Maariv reported that military investigators believe that the shooting soldier had no premeditated intention to kill [a shocking conclusion in light of the video – OH] and that it is hard to convict him of murder.
 
At the Yedioth/Ynet Anti-BDS conference, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin expressed uncompromising support for the Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, who is being attacked by the right-wing for taking action against the ‘Shooting Soldier.’ Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid joined Zionist Camp leader Isaac Herzog and MK Tsipi Livni in criticizing the attacks against the IDF and the Chief of Staff. Herzog and Livni also slammed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for his criticism of the High Court, which ruled to prevent a controversial gas monopoly deal. Street support for the soldier continues. A demonstration was held yesterday in Beit Shemesh in support of the Shooting Soldier’ and a large rally will be held this evening in Ramleh, which according to foreign reports (Richard Silverstein) is where the soldier lives. Demonstrations that were organized by Habayit Hayehudi party youth in solidarity with the ‘Shooting Soldier’ were canceled at the behest of Bennett for political reasons and out of fear that they would be perceived as a move against the government and the IDF, Maariv reported. 
 
Also at the anti-BDS conference, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said that the US vigorously opposes BDS.
Shapiro and EU diplomats said that to combat BDS Israel needed to solve the Palestinian issue. EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen asserted that the Israel should stop "being seen as undermining the two state solution" and must "show more of a will to move forward with the process."  However, Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) rejected the claim made by Opposition leader Isaac Herzog, MK Tzipi Linvi and US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro that Israel's policies and the lack of resolution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were what fueled the BDS movement. Comedian Roseanne Barr called BDS supporters “fascists pretending to be left-wing.” And Interior minister Arieh Deri said he was mulling revoking the resident status of BDS founder Omar Barghouti.

Quick Hits:

• Palestinians ask UN to investigate Israeli killings ('executions') - Move comes after an Israeli soldier was filmed shooting dead a wounded Palestinian assailant as he lay on the ground. (Agencies, Haaretz, Maariv and Maan)
• Netanyahu orders defense minister not to return terrorists’ bodies to Palestinian Authority - Prime minister’s associates refuse to reveal reason for instructions, which are counter to stated position of both defense minister and IDF chief of staff. (Haaretz+ and Maariv)
• The Shin Bet's #1 target is now a father - Meir Ettinger (suspected leader of Jewish terror cell in the West Bank) was put into administrative detention in August under suspicion of setting on fire a Palestinian family's home [Dawabsheh family in Duma, three people and only one child survived. – OH]. He has asked for leave to attend his son’s brit. (Ynet)
• Palestinian group calls for escalation of the intifada - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command called for an escalation of the intifada on Monday. (Ynet) 
• Israel raises travel warning, urges its citizens to leave Turkey 'as soon as possible' - Recent bombing in Istanbul, in which three Israelis were killed, 'shows a high capability to carry out more attacks,' counter-terrorism bureau says. (Haaretz and Ynet)
• After Brazilian rejection, Netanyahu names former settler leader as Israeli consul general in New York - The move comes after Brasilia's months-long refusal to approve Dayan's previous appointment as ambassador to Brazil due to his previous affiliation with the settler movement. (Haaretz+, Ynet Hebrew and Ynet)
• Ex-Shin Bet chief says top Arab MK supports terrorists - MK Avi Dichter’s comment follows MK Ayman Odeh’s accusation last month that the Likud MK had ordered the killing of Yasser Arafat. (Times of Israel and Maariv)
• Breaking the Silence accuses Israeli politicians of incitement - After an IDF investigation into the organization showed that the information it collected from soldiers wasn’t highly classified, the NGO blames right-wing lawmakers of being 'shameless and irresponsible.' (Haaretz+)
• Watchdog: Israeli army breaking rules on accepting donations  -State comptroller charges that officers maintain direct contact with donors, and that monies are used to fund basic needs and services which the army should cover. (Haaretz+)
• Israeli watchdog: Over 70% of West Bank construction violations go unaddressed - State comptroller says Civil Administration's failure to monitor and enforce construction rules in Palestinian areas and settlements is 'a major blow to the rule of law.' (Haaretz+ and Ynet)
• New bill would block publication of names of soldiers under criminal investigation - The legislation is introduced amid a military investigation into the killing of a subdued Palestinian attacker by an Israeli soldier in Hebron. (Haaretz)
• IDF rabbinate to be stripped of Jewish awareness programming on Friday - As part of broader reform, the Jewish awareness department will be merged with the Jewish identity branch and placed under the jurisdiction of the Personnel Directorate. (Haaretz+) 
• Man accidentally hits Palestinian child with car - A Jewish driver was driving south of Hebron when he accidentally hit a Palestinian child. Locals said the boy was trying to cross the Israeli bypass road to his home when he was hit. The driver did not escape. (Ynet and Maan)
• The Sting: How Israeli police get Jewish terror suspects to confess - Investigators know that far-right activists are notoriously hard to break, so they have to resort to some rather creative methods - including fake blood and staged drug busts. (Haaretz+)
• Jerusalem Muslim cleric who called for slaughter of Jews convicted of incitement - Al-Aqsa mosque preacher said: ‘I say to the Jews … we and the state of the Islamic caliphate… will come to liberate this land from your filth.’ (Haaretz+)
• Israeli Army Doesn’t Learn From Past Mistakes, Watchdog Says - A State Comptroller report recommends that the IDF's Doctrine and Training Division should determine the procedures for conducting military inquiries. (Haaretz+)
• Israeli minister calls for disclosing details of oil negotiations with Iran - Uri Ariel spoke up as cabinet extended secrecy order for Eilat-Ashkelon Pipeline Company. (Haaretz+) 
• Elton John Was Asked to Declare Loyalty to Israel Ahead of Tel Aviv Show, Producer Claims - Interior Ministry slams concert producer Shuki Weiss' who referred to clause in Ministry form that says: “I declare that I have never acted against the Jewish people or the security of the State of Israel.” (Haaretz+) 
• Report: Abiding by Egypt's demands, Hamas secretly pulls forces out of Sinai - Security cooperation between Cairo and Hamas strengthens: Ghassan Irani was returned to Gaza after refusing to answer his commanders’ orders. In this way, Hamas destroyed its presence in the Sinai Peninsula. Palestinian reports suggest that a special unit of the Kasssam Brigades, Hamas’ military wing, secretly headed to Sinai on Friday in order to kidnap and return to Gaza of its members. (Maariv/JPost)
• Is one of Jerusalem’s longest-running religious spats over? - Feud at Greek Orthodox Patriarchy in the Old City may have been resolved with the so-called ‘monk in the window’ reconciling with current patriarch. (Haaretz+)
• Israel Police: Most caregivers suspected of child abuse aren't indicted - Officers tell Knesset committee that 80 percent of cases are closed due to lack of evidence. (Haaretz+) 
• Two Palestinians charged with plotting ISIS-inspired attack - East Jerusalem residents allegedly attempt to join ISIS in Syria; after failing, they decided to build a bomb to use against Israeli security forces. (Ynet) 
• Noble Energy calls Israeli High Court natural gas ruling 'disappointing' - CEO says that now the court has nullified a cabinet resolution promising Noble and its partners regulatory stability, it is up to the Israeli government to find a solution. (Haaretz) 
• ISIS has 'advanced plans' to attack Jewish children in Turkey, British reports say - The information on the 'imminent' threat reportedly comes from six operatives recently arrested in the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep. (Haaretz+) 
• Syrian experts shocked by damage inside Palmyra's museum - Syrian antiquities experts expressed shock Monday at the destruction the Islamic State group wrought inside Palmyra's museum, where scores of artifacts were smashed before troops drove the extremists out of the historic town. (Ynet)

Commentary/Analysis:
Dear U.S. Jews: Israel's Sending You the Apartheid Choice for N.Y. Envoy. Send It Back (Bradley Burston, Haaretz+) If you are an American Jew who wants to foster the values of democracy, equality, self-determination and human rights in Israel, now is the time to stand up and raise your voice against the appointment of Dani Dayan.
AIPAC polarizing US Jews (Yossi Shain, Yedioth/Ynet) The purportedly bipartisan pro-Israel organization has become increasingly identified with right-wing politics, and its recent conference provides evidence of that.
Israel's Chief Danger (Haaretz Editorial) In addition to expressing ugly opinions, Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef also interferes in various issues that are completely beyond his jurisdiction. 
Did you fell on your head? The decision to incriminate the (shooting) soldier for murder is outrageous (Kalman Libskind, Maariv) A soldier goes out to operational activity, and his shooting is the most indefensible possible, can hang out under the same article with a soldier from a crime organization who murdered in order to settle underworld accounts?
Terror, Lies, and Videotape in Hebron (Allison Kaplan Sommer, Haaretz+) Netanyahu and military leaders quickly condemned the shooting of a subdued Palestinian terrorist by an Israeli soldier. They shouldn’t have been surprised that the frightened public came to his defense.
My grandson in Hebron - Doing the right thing (Yaron London, Yedioth) During these days, the days of the burning debate over the level of guilt of the soldier who shot in the head a knifer in Hebron, I only think about my grandson in Hebron, who has already spent a few days in the place of the incident, doing body searches on Arabs who live in the neighborhood near residents of the Jewish quarter to make sure they weren’t carrying weapons, and he returned home for the weekend in shock. I believe that had he been there during the incident, had he noticed the intention of the shooter, he would have raised in voice in a shot, and maybe even charged him. I assume, I believe, I hope, but I am not completely sure, such as I am not completely sure how I would have acted. The courage to stand alone in the face of a vengeful spirit, to listen only to the voice of your conscience and to protest this evil act without hesitating, without knowing how your commanders and friends will react, without thinking about the price you will pay, that is the type of very rare courage, more rare than the courage needed to charge the enemy. I know how easy it is to pull the trigger and kill the surrendered and defeated enemy. All the anger on the people that threatened your life and hurt your friends you release with one shot. I know because in the only war that I was present, the Yom Kippur War, I was present for it. I saw with my own eyes, from close up I saw, how they strike down the helpless injured. I understood that also honest people, dispassionate in normal circumstances, became tortured only after they opened fire. My finger itched on the trigger….Brutalization is the necessary consequence of the occupation that forces our soldiers to deal with the suppression of the resistance of Palestinians, but I am not discussing here the rightness of the occupation, whose end cannot be seen in the horizon, but in the vital battle to preserve human dignity in conditions that make that difficult. The only way to temper the vulgar behavior that is imprinted on people until the end of their lives is through combat fighter education. I believe that the highest commander does that despite the conditions that try to stop his intentions. The Chief of Staff and Defense Minister reacted properly to the acts of the shooter in Hebron. Avoiding putting him on trial cannot happen.
Israel runs strongest Mideast army like a shtetl (Amos Harel, Haaretz+) The IDF, it transpires, has no modus operandi for investigations, and no long-term, systematic sharing of information between units.
Once in a blue moon: our crisis stems from what the occupation has done to us, but there is a cure (Uri Savir, Maariv) Marking 50 years to the occupation of the West Bank, in the summer of 2017, is a reminder of the violence and racism that our presence there has brought to Israeli society. The known solution will bring legitimacy back to us.
On Hebron shooting, Netanyahu and Bennett follow enraged public all the way to the right (Amos Harel, Haaretz+) Cabinet members seem to be riding the tiger of public opinion — which, at least on social media, is vehemently and crudely backing the soldier who shot and killed a wounded Palestinian assailant — and are afraid to anger it.
A renewed way of teaching: the pluralist approach should be taken in civic studies (Dr. Revital Amiran, Maariv) The education profession needs to change so that each sector writes his book, and the curriculum for of all the sectors is reduced to a smaller common denominator so that the level of hostility and tension between the various populations drops.
Don’t Shoot the Messenger: Dayan Is an All-too-perfect Israeli Envoy for N.Y. (Chemi Shalev, Haaretz+) The Consul General designate will accurately reflect the current government’s devotion to settlements and annexation, albeit in a kinder and gentler way.
On Campus, Why Is anti-Semitism Different From All Other Prejudices? (David Schraub, Haaretz+) The University of California’s “Principles Against Intolerance” challenge bigotry on its campuses, while stressing the paramount right of free speech. So why are its principles against anti-Semitism deemed 'censorship'?
What’s Behind the Virulence of the anti-AIPAC Attacks? (Rabbi Eric H. Yoffie, Haaretz+) AIPAC is not the Great Satan of American Jewish life. It is not undermining American democracy. AIPAC did not make Trump legitimate; Republican voters did. 
As Jews in Brussels, we're trapped between the jihadists and the far right (Nehama Sobernheim, Haaretz+) We have soldiers outside our synagogues because of the danger from jihadists, but we – together with the Muslim community – are equally threatened by the far right's backlash.
Neighbors Corruption Scandal Hovers Over Erdogan (Zvi Bar'el, Haaretz+) The Turkish president’s biggest fear is that tycoons arrested in U.S., Iran will reveal Ankara’s role in evading sanctions against Tehran. 
 

Prepared for APN by Orly Halpern, independent freelance journalist based in Jerusalem.